Presto:

I signed up via the Netflix channel on the Apple TV which requested me to put in an email address to complete signing up on the Netflix website.

Can sign up for a month free trial, and if you want to continue, will auto renewal. Subscription is on a monthly basis and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Subscriptions:

1 screen unlimited streaming $8.99 per month.

2 screens unlimited streaming $11.99 per month.

4 screens plus unlimited streaming $14.99 per month.

I signed up for the 4 screens plus subscription as I wanted to access Netflix on 3 Apple TVs, and 2 iPhones.

Netflix works on many devices, so far I have watch Netflix on my Mac, Apple TV, and iPhone which were all accessible with VoiceOver. You can also watch Netflix in your browser which is what I was doing on my Mac. I haven’t tried out Netflix on Android yet. I must say though the website is a bit messy and prefer to watch on either my iPhone or Apple TV.

The managing of my Netflix account mainly done by the Netflix website: Can set parental restrictions, personal preferences, and setup profiles (unto 5) based on adult, children under 12yrs or children over 12yrs: have done this for my family so that each person can get better recommendations on what they have viewed.

You can see (on the iOS app at least: varies on the web version and Apple TV:

Continue watching,

My list (favorited),

Top PicsPopular on Netflix,

Exciting movies,

and so on.

On the Apple TV you can access:

Suggestions,

Recently watched,

Genres,

TV shows,

New Releases,

My list (favorited),

Search, and

Switch profile.

Under a child’s profile, the options are (on the Apple tv) Suggestions for you, Kids characters, Search, and Change profile.

Movie Genres include:

Action and Adventure,

Australian movies,

Children and family movies,

Comedies,

Documentaries,

Dramas,

Horror Movies,

Independent movies,

Romantic movies,

Scifi and fantasy,

Thrillers,

World Cinema,

Good selection of TV shows.

It looks like for the moment Netflix only supports Closed Captioning: no sign of audio description, but I have seen on the web some folks mentioning that they got audio description talking by accident and wanted to know how to turn it off (most likely in the US).

Found the following lists of Movies and TV shows for Netflix in Australia on the web:

iOS 8.2:

iOS 8.2 was released on March 10 with the Apple watch companion app. Not many specific VoiceOver fix’s, but a lot to come in iOS 8.3 for VoiceOver users.

Window-Eyes 9:

Window-Eyes 9 is released with a number of major improvements including major improvements to web browsing, Office support, and self restart if speech locks up augments other feature improvements. No touch screen support as yet.

In March 9.1 was released and amongst other improvements support for Chrome.

Windows 10 for desktop/mobile to be released later this year:

ACB Radio Main Menu carried a recording of the Windows 10 presentation in January in their shows for January 30th (part 1) and Feb 6th (part 2) due to the length of the actual presentation by Microsoft.

You can get to these presentations by scribing to ACB Radio Main Menu in iTunes or from a pod catcher such as DownCast on iOS.

Apple Keynote event March 2015

As I said last week, we have now had a bit of a chance to think about the stuff covered in the Apple Keynote event, and how it effects us in Australia.

CarPlay:

Every major car manufacturer committed to CarPlay for new models from 2015: talk to your phone rather than looking at your dashboard controls. Compatible with iPhone 5, 5c, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 plus. With compatible cars, go in to Settings, General,CarPlay.

Apple also outlined updates to the Mac air and Macbook pro available from the day of the keynote.

Apple watch

Overview of the Apple watch - time, watch faces, glances, read/send messages/Mail, make/send calls from your wrist (not covered in last years demo), sending tactile taps to others with an Apple watch, health and fitness, and demo of using Siri.

Demo of a few Apple watch apps (a very cool demo of opening a garage door remotely from the Apple watch).

All day battery life (which this time means 18 hours smile).

Apple watch is water resistant not water proof, so ok to ware it out in the rain, washing your hands etc.

Apple watch companion app available with iOS 8.2 released on the day of the Keynote March 10.

Not much in the Apple watch app at the moment as there is no Apple watch to pair with: mainly watch videos about the Apple watch. My short demo of the Apple watch is at:

Video demos of manufacturing the sports and stainless Steel Apple watch’s, a brief mention of the gold Apple watch and its price (will only be available at select Apple retail stores and other selected retail stores).

Pre-release April 10 and available April 24 with the two weeks before release, customers being able to go in to an Apple store and try on the different Apple watch’s and bands.

Still no news on accessibility.

Pricing for the Apple watch:

Apple watch sports: $499 38MM and $579 42mm.

Aluminium case with display protect by Ion-X glass.

Colours - Silver or space grey cases.

Apple watch (Stainless Steel): $799 38MM $799 and 42MM $879.

Stainless steel cased with display protected by Sapphire crystal.

Colours - stainless steel and space black stainless steel cases.

Apple watch edition (gold): from $14.000.

Note - different types of bands for the Apple watch and Apple watch edition add to the overall cost.

Monday, 9 March 2015

In this weeks show:

A quick note on the Apple event which took place today 10/3/2015 to be talked about in more detail on next weeks program, completing the top 10 assistive technology events from Blind Bargains for 2014, some highlights from the ATIA conference held in January this year, and AccessWorld two editions for Jan & Feb.

Apple event for 10/3/2015:

As this event only took place this morning, we decided to put it over to next weeks program by which time we have had more time to digest what was covered in the announcement.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

We’re back!!!

A big thank you to Tony Egan for keeping the technology fires burning for Talking Tech Summer editions.

In this weeks show:

A note about CSUN taking place this week from the 2nd until the 7th of March, The Hills Talking Set top box no longer manufactured, Apple event scheduled for the 9th of March, and a look at the top 10 assistive technology related activities for 2014 by Blind Bargains.

CSUN Conference 2015:

As we speak, the CSUN 30th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference is taking place from March 2 until March 7 2015.

This is the major disability conference for the year particularly for people who are blind or low vision and we will be letting you know what items of note come out of the conference. The following link will take you to a list of exhibitors at the conference.

Hills talking set top box:

The Hills talking set top box is no longer manufactured in Australia leaving consumers without a dedicated set top box. Will need to start looking at tv sets that have voice guidance such as the Panasonic Viera range of smart TVS.

A review of the Panasonic Viera from Media Access Australia is at the folioing link:

Apple event for March 9 10am (March 10 4am Australia) in the US titled “Spring Forward”:

Everyone is fairly sure that this keynote event will be all about the Apple watch. You can use the following link to go to the Apple page and listen live when the event is being broadcast or listen to it on the Apple tv.